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> Just good to temper optimism sometimes.

Sure. But is it really? Like in what way is it good? I see a lot more “tempering” than I do breathless optimism. Is any serious person in a position to do something meaningful with the batteries falling prey to hype that needs to be tempered?
And your better alternative is........... ?
> Most big companies are not good if you want to solve problems and build stuff.

There are many levels to "build stuff", so it's important to introspect what kind is important to you.

I love to build quality code. Production code that is quite efficient, fast, secure and maintainable while being full-featured.

Having done five startups now, this is very difficult to do in startups.

(There was one startup where we had a great team of like-minded quality-driven people and it was awesome, but it was the exception.)

"Building stuff" in startups usually means throwing together a mess of half-baked code and holding it together with chewing gum and duct tape and immediately moving on to the next thing that sales promised a customer yesterday but hasn't been started. From a business perspective, that's not wrong. It's a startup, you need to grow fast and add features at lightning speed to capture some market. But if you crave to build quality, this isn't it.

It's only in larger companies with some stability and steady revenue that there is some possibility of finding the environment to build things I can be proud of. Of course, most large companies also just build junk. Finding a good one is hard, and is an exercise left to the reader.

(If you know any please share!)
He doesn't care, and he won't change his ways. And that's perfectly okay!

I'm assuming you are someone who closes tabs sometimes. I am too. What you have to accept is that we are the weird ones. A browser is a tool and just opening new tabs for everything is the easiest way to use it. There is very little downside, because there is no need to ever touch an old tab if you can just open a new one. There is no limit on how many you can have open other than what your machine can handle, and even if the browser crashes, nothing is really lost, because you just... open a new tab.

Just accept it. It's hard, seeing a million tabs open really bugs me too, but you're not going to change anyone's mind on the subject.
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Thousands of people think aliens have kidnapped them and done experiments on them.
> we're back to buying fossil fuels from a third party

If we ignore the non-fossil fuel solution mentioned, yes. The point is it's a weak natural monopoly due to multiple alternatives.
Could people deal with the root cause of “refugee crises” by not electing warmongering politicians? Or is that too much to ask?
Depending on how much you drive a day, a propane powered generator pack for a few thousand bucks (chinesium ones start at ~1000 $ [1]) in your shed should be enough to charge during the night and keep your home powered as well, and unlike gas/diesel, propane doesn't go bad during storage.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B01M0N8256/ref=sr_1_3
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I once gave a person with a PhD and published papers in graph theory a question that could be straightforwardly solved using simple graph algorithms. This person couldn't pull off a for loop despite having other programming jobs on their resume.
It's such a pain, there was a fantastic hn submission not long ago about the struggles with vertical centering.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40069599
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Look to contribute to an Open Source project. You can get quite a resume and reputation if you can help with some of the larger apache projects or something from Meta/Facebook.

You'll (eventually) get to attend conferences, meet other like minded folk, and maybe decide what to do next with your life.

It's not a long term solution to not being thrilled about your college or town, but it's potentially some relief from not being challenged or interacting with people like you.
Absolutely! I'm definitely not trying to minimize the impact that aging has on our bodies, just add another data point to the discussion :)

I've just seen people my age and younger suggest that running while fat is too hard and give up on it but I've started to enjoy it for the first time in my life despite my weight.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
that sounds like a great open source project, I'm interested in starting on it if there's nothing out there.
What is the user exit strategy? Can I export all notes? In which formats?
That person is my soulmate.
Edit: Isn't the headline misinformation by editorializing? Trump Media's audit company was shutdown, so it has to re-audit. Key Q: Does a publicly-traded company have to cease operations if it needs to re-audit?

https://archive.ph/YjTtZ
parallel versus series hybrid. Series will have ICE generate and the only thing attached to the wheels is electric motors. Parallel (like the prius) the electric motor and the ICE are connected to the wheels. There are reasons for both, but freight trains in the US are series. In my opinion, series is probably the best, since you can engineer the ICE to be as clean and efficient as possible at exactly 1 RPM setting - making them last longer to boot.

I apologize for forgetting the benefits of parallel hybrid systems, but i know there are some, including needing a smaller ICE, all things equal.
Regulation.

This is one of the market failures caused by excessive regulation.

To make a chair you requires so much paperwork that only a small number of business can do it.

I especially like the regulations that make sure only those who need the chair get it, to reduce medical costs, but in the process all the paperwork dramatically drives up the costs.
The guy running the office before him was elevated on a pedestal of hope and dreams and didn't really deliver. Not that he as successor did either.

There are deeply rooted problems with the elite and people will eventually realize that the frontrunner aint got nothing up against it.
Ah sorry - initially only launched in the US/Canada because I don't have translations set up. I suppose there is no reason to not make it available in the UK though.
What about mobile? Or don't you take notes there?
I think people creating "AI Startups" are looking at things backward. There is this new technology and they are trying to look for ways to use the tech and call it a company. They should be looking for a problem people have that they can solve, if AI makes that solution better, great. Customers aren't buying AI, they buy good solutions to their problems. This is where we're seeing a lot of bad reviews on some of these AI Startups... they are making these AI products that do stuff in areas where adequate or better solutions already exist, so customers don't care.

Don't be so blinded by the tech that you forget what the point of a company is.
Same with BCHydro. Not the cheapest, but still cheap. Much better than being at the whims of shareholders.
China doesn't have largest Li deposits. It's a hub area. Perhaps THE hub area for industrial goods.

You didn't really refute GP's point.
The way I think about this is that I use an L1 charger at home that draws 1500 watts about half the time (on a normal day).

That's ~= 15 light bulbs from the 1990's, or roughly 6 desktop PCs. I switched from incandescent to LED bulbs, and a desktop to a laptop, so that's almost enough to offset the EV's usage. Also, we have solar panels, and a house battery that can time shift our energy consumption.
I use it for making art! Specifically static, 2D “paintings”
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
For sure. Them being Swedes with a long track record decreases that probability a lot.
If you don't require pure CSS, nested `querySelector` calls are also great for this -- you can use it to segment out smaller slices of a DOM with more generalized queries, that don't rely on detailed selector logic. I'm a fan of this for its composability, but nesting -- also referenced in the OP -- could be used to achieve a similar result.

You can also create new DOMs out of arbitrary HTML trees with a `DOMParser`, and can then run queries against those. Really useful when run against the responses from `fetch` requests.
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I'm not saying your family friend has done this, but I've seen people "refer" others to their company, then deliberately tank the candidacy because they didn't believe in the candidate's skills.
Well, a private equity firm owned the wheelchair company for a decade. It was only when a different PE firm came in that the service allegedly declined.
It is the job of government to regulate and reign in capitalism.

We are also told that democracy is the best form of government, and we are also told that our democracy is genuine, and that it must be protected. For some reason, people are unable to wonder if these various stories are true...perhaps because that skill is not innate, and is not taught in school?
New Army video aims to lure recruits for psychological operations
>Early social media (MySpace, Twitter, Facebook) was a free alternative to paying someone to run, patch, and scale your own website/blog. It gave a lot of people opportunity to create their own communities and engage with them in a more convenient and immediate way than blogs or forums.

Exactly, it brought the complexity down dramatically for discovering and connecting with people online.

>I am removing my social media posts, closing accounts, and going back to a website with a blog. Instagram, Twitter, and the rest of them are the new MySpace near its end days, they can run on fake accounts and bullshit content for a while, but advertisers will eventually learn that the audiences have gone elsewhere.

I think a good idea would be; if somebody could make vanilla Facebook which was meant to connect you with friends and family but more privacy focused. Everything you do on Facebook is logged and fed into some kind of social graph and algorithm and eventually sold to advertisers.

We already have more streamlined and privacy focused email and search engine alternatives but we don't have a private social network equivalent of Facebook. I think paying a few bucks for a monthly subscription in exchange for smaller, more secure and privacy focused version of Facebook wouldn't be a problem for people who want to stay private and off the Big Tech's grid.
Power wheelchairs are regulated (FDA) as medical devices.
What’s the difference between a drummer and a drum machine?

You only have to punch the beat into a drum machine once.

(Had bands and multiple drummers. Love’m)
Quick read suggests v4 now forces you to define operation ids? Daunting work.
His manifesto is crying about SJWs 40 years before the concept existed. There's nothing insightful in there at all.
China is already scaling their sodium battery production from MWH plants to GWH plants. The US has the largest sodium reserves in the world. In depth interview about sodium batteries with a professor that has researched sodium chemistries for a decade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRAJSH_raW8
I didn't end up working there, but I thought Netflix absolutely nailed it when it came to good interviews. They were quick to schedule them, the people were smart and intelligent, and all their questions were top notch.

I had three coding interviews, and they all involved very practical, challenging problems that I hadn't ever seen before. The system design ones was a good back and forth, it didn't feel confrontational or textobok.

I highly recommend people looking for a job to at least give it a shot there.
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> VCs are no way indication of how regular ecomony functions

Regular people aren't seeing their "business or startup struggling to close deals in last 6 months." You made two false claims. They're being refuted individually.

> a software engineer who lost his/her job and now struggling for months is real signal

FTFA (and top comment): "Jobs in tech, finance, law, and accounting were essentially flat or slightly down." That's nationally; it's worse if you're in e.g. the Bay Area.

Also, statistically speaking, software engineers aren't "regular people" given their median wage is double the population's.

> BLS is government resource. Same with job reports, data gets revised often

Yes. You can see the revisions. They publish them. They're linked to above. If you know how to read these data, you know first estimates can be 10 to 40% off. That's why they're published as estimates.

Also, there are dozens of employment metrics. Here is a private one [1]. They all paint the same picture.

[1] https://adpemploymentreport.com
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Electrons don’t eat food either.

Eating food is unnecessary.
Hi Sohails,

Have you actually read the copy and learned about how the product works? Apart from the funnel like website layout the two products share little to nothing. Not even the tech stack.

If you have any questions regarding the product you can ask them here or get a hold of me on twitter (username: @fasternode_).
We've seen consolidation across the whole economy (which have vastly different regulation schemes) so I'm skeptical of it being just regulation driven
People are always losing jobs and getting new ones. Where people struggle is with rate exposure and some industries and big ticket items like housing.
I've got a little under 200 tabs open right now in my main browser -- split into ~15 different groups with a plugin. I treat each as a little workspace for a project or subject I'm interested in and flip back and forth as needed. Keeping them open (although not necessarily loaded) is useful for preserving context (e.g. back button history, accounts logged in in the proper container, tabs arranged next to each other in a particular way for spatial memory, etc.) so that jumping back into something later is easy.
Well, the main point of any company is to make money. That money is influenced by their labor costs, so if an AI startup can help them reduce that cost by using a bot then you can bet they'll buy it.
>> PG&E

Fuck PG&E.

I live in the Bay Area, and candidly my choices for solar, inverters, batteries, heat pumps and any thing that will make a home eco friendly are abysmal.

I have a fairly unique roof for the area. There has only been one solar installer who did not run when I explained what I needed. They all have a cookie cutter approach to minimize costs and maximize profits. There is no variance or selection. It's a onesie fits all solution to a dynamic problem.

Electric water heating is interesting. You should look to install a tank and a tankless heater. It's called a booster configuration. Set the tank up to run during the day when you have free power and then only hit the tankless when it runs empty (or your variable costs are low).

Good luck finding a plumber who knows how to set it up.
Capitalism moderated by various systems emerging from a genuine, sophisticated democratic system would be my advice.

We have a lot of work to get from here to there though, and much of it is the undoing of mass psychological condition.
Installed to give it a look, but, sadly, as expected, nobody in my area, and concerts are basically non-existent.
What does a drummer use for birth control? Their personality.

(Agree with sibling posts, getting a great drummer is hard and amazing.)
People don't like web apps and don't know how to install PWA's (by design of the OS manufacturers that make money from developers needing to pay to be on their hosted platforms). Like it or not, if you tell someone you have a product to use on their phone, they're going to want it to be in the App Store.
Nice, thank you! You're adding to my reading list, and I appreciate that! :)

I'm still mulling over how difficult it would be to reimplement this with "stock" llama.cpp.

It feels like the first step would be to essentially get the "super-embeddings" for each prompt -- instead of grabbing just the text embeddings (which I understand is usually only the narrowest layer?) -- we would want to store off the activations for every layer. Then save them all to a list, average them together, and then figure out a way to use that to modify the weights of the model -- either at runtime (I imagine this much like a current guidance-vector would be loaded), or else (as you suggested) write a script to bake the modifications into the core model (but using multiplication rather than addition).

Does that match your understanding?

Thank you very much for helping me think this through!
TBH - this sounds like a very weak counter-point. The pertinent information is that oil production declined in the US during the 2021 inflationary period. A point in time where under classic money theory - either investments should have been happening too quickly or too many dollars were chasing too few goods.

Something happened in the oil industry which is unexplained by economics (at least to my knowledge), and trivially explained by collusion/price-fixing.
In the worst case scenario your suspicions explain ~20% of price increases, so let's not get carried away with "I told you so"s.
Those exist!

I googled 65% bluetooth keyboard and this is the first result:

https://www.cherryamericas.com/mx-lp-2-1-compact-wireless

No idea if it's any good or not.

In my experience, only Logitech seems to have figured out decent battery life in wireless keyboards. Even with the lighting effects turned off, most mechanical keyboards have terrible battery life (often less than a week).

My gripe is that there are lots and lots of great small keyboards out there being made by hobbyists and small companies, but none of them offer scissor switch options! I'd really like something closer to a modern Apple laptop keyboard. I've been using a Lenovo Trackpoint II which is close, but I don't really like it.
No. It’s only efficient when property rights are enforced, barriers to entry are low, and transaction costs are minimal.

Wheelchairs are regulated (barriers to entry), pollution is the nonexistence of property rights, and your take-it-or-leave-it noncompete agreement is a consequence of high transaction costs (job search, legal negotiations).
Sure. It likely also means different wing geometry and it needs to move faster.
This is a good illustration of the difference between capitalism and a free market.

In a free market, "moats" like regulatory capture would not exist. In a market like this, where the customers--wheelchair users--are generally pretty savvy about what they need, a free market would have no trouble providing products that met customer needs at an affordable cost, because customers would have meaningful choices about who to buy from and who not to buy from, and customers would see the full cost of the products so they could make meaningful cost-benefit calculations.

In capitalism such as we currently have, none of that is happening. The government aids and abets rich people who want to siphon off even more wealth than they already have by putting regulatory barriers in place that stifle competition, and it removes visibility into actual costs by forcing all medical products and services to be provided through health insurance, even when, as in this case, there is no insurable risk involved--it's an ongoing medical need that is already known (not a risk) and which is predictable (so insurance makes no sense anyway). The result, of course, is that the customers get shafted while rich people get richer.
I have been working on a fix for the scroll issue on the about page. Can you check if it's better now?

https://neoneye.github.io/arc/about.html
Just try it. With this age of Youtube, the barrier to entry is extremely low. You don't need a full shop of tools, just patience and the willingness to learn.
Capitalism with much stronger consumer-protection regulations?
For grid storage, it's unclear if faster charge/discharge matters.

We ended up sizing our batteries to meet wattage demands for our appliances. I wish we had ~ 2x as many kWh as we do. Anker has a home battery whose main selling point is that you can add kWh without adding peak wattage.

For use in vehicles, faster charge rates are a big win. Faster discharge probably doesn't matter much for cars (0-60 times are already ridiculously low). They might for drones / planes though.
China is doing pretty well. In before a wall of text about how China is doomed or whatever.
Why are you so committed to being wrong?
> starting an eastern european club at my school.

Wait, are you from Eastern Europe or Western Europe?

If Eastern, I suggest taking some time after the semester ends and spending a few weeks in large rustbelt cities (Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee, etc). There are large communities of highly entrepreneurial people from Poland, the Balkans, Ukraine, etc.

If you are from France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, etc, I don't know what to tell you. Most people I've met intentionally assimilate and don't put any effort into forming bonds with others from their former countries.
You'd have to invent this one at least, as it currently doesn't exist. As the DNS server operator, you can view all my DNS queries. In a zero-trust environment where I don't trust you not to log all user queries and forwards them to the NSA, you'd need to use homomorphic encryption and create a DNS client and server than can do a lookup, without you, the DNS server operator, from finding out what the DNS lookup was of.

https://github.com/menonsamir/spiral-rs claims to have implemented this at a level that's practical for real world applications, with a demo for a wikipedia server, but it's far too slow, as demoed, for use as DNS server.

Now, the fact of the matter is that you can map my account ID back to the IP I'm connecting from, but with very limited way to map from my IP to my identity protects that in many ways, but data-mining at scale, knowing how many users connecting to one proxy server from city X, would be worth something to advertising and related companies who are more interested in large habits of users. If it turns out no one uses the pirate bay anymore, but use torrent site XYZ, I know where I'd place my advertising dollars for, say, a VPN product.

This is on the extreme end, but you asked for a fun challenge! :)
all that assumes perfect selfish behavior by each individual investor. Most stocks are not held by individuals, and most individual adults are not invested in stocks.

The rational question raised here is not terrible, but several assumptions in it, together, make the mental model that has enabled rampant destruction of the one and only natural Earth in the past two decades with full knowledge of it.
Almost as troubling, from the article "Customized wheelchairs typically last five years, but most chairs need a major repair or two during that time."

What the actual fuck? Power wheelchairs run the spectrum for a few thousand USD to ten thousand plus. And they only last ~5 years, and even then with several major repairs in that period?

That sounds like an absolutely atrocious durability/reliability record.